Living the Dream!
Welcome to Retired Pear.
This site is about a couple of newly retired people who enjoy being with friends and family as well as traveling as much as possible. We will be chatting about retired life from our perspective as well as our travel experiences that we have enjoyed.
I hope you enjoy the site and feel free to leave a comment
Nadine and I have been planning this day for eight months ever since we met with our financial advisor and he said “go for it”. We met with Mike and he indicated that we should be able to enjoy our retirement with our pensions and his investing help. He crunched the numbers and we were sold. That was June 2017.
We had a busy time figuring out when to give our notices and set ourselves free. In September we spent two and a half weeks taking care of Adam and Rebecca’s children while they went to France and Amsterdam for their honeymoon, busy, busy, busy. We changed our plans to go to South Africa and Ethiopia in the fall and hope to go next year. We did get over to Bermuda and visited with Noah and Issac for five days in January before we quit work. It was great.
I started to leak my intentions to our management team members in July but didn’t make it official until October. Nadine gave her notice in November and then we started to plan for our future.
Our last official day at work was January 31, 2018.
Travel is only the beginning.
Nadine and I have just retired and plan to travel as much as we can while we are still healthy. We truly enjoy visiting new places and love to sit enjoying a coffee on the street corner and watch the people.
We have been fortunate to have traveled to many countries and we will try and share some of our stories as we go forward.
Travel is awesome but there’s no place like home.
Hi, to reach Jim or Nadine kindly send us an email to durhamtown@yahoo.com
have a great day.